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World's richest 1% own 40% of all wealth, UN report discovers. * First ever study of global household assets * 50% of world's adults own just 1% of the wealth * The United States is home to over 33% of the world's super rich people, followed by Japan with 27%. Britain is home to 6% of...

The Times December 06, 2006 The Scots won't be fooled by this separatist lunacy Magnus Linklater Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent. Anyone who is against Tony Blair’s decision on Trident should move briskly north to Scotland, where they can appreciate the incoherence of an...

A sneak preview of the two episodes of BBC comedy Little Britain that will be shown at Christmas. All the main characters - both male and female - are played by just two actors, David Walliams and Matt Lucas. Little Britain's Xmas treat Ting-Tong merrily on high ... Mr Dudley takes...

Harrods sacks Santa over family race complaint 5th December 2006 The right Claus: Santa keeping the magic of Christmas alive A Harrods Santa has been sacked after complaints that he racially abused an Asian family who came to visit his grotto. Santa allegedly asked the...

The Times December 05, 2006 France, steeped in genocidal blood, must face trial Andrew Wallis France was against the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, but what about its role in the genocide of tiny Rwanda, a country of just 8 million people? The hastily arranged car boot sale outside...

The Times December 05, 2006 Borat’s nation seeks leading role in Europe David Chater, Brussels *Kazakhstan in bid to chair OSCE *Backing in EU for supplier of energy Kazakhstan wishes to consider itself a European nation: Kazakhstan's bid to chair the Organisation for...

Smouldering ruin where two firemen died by MICHAEL SEAMARK and CHARLOTTE GILL 5th December 2006 Aftermath: The devastated fireworks factory and the owner's wrecked house Some buildings have vanished altogether. The rest have been reduced to charred and buckled shells...

Britain is older and, therefore, wiser than the United States. But the ungrateful Americans don't seem to value our "special relationship." Britain can't win. If we weren't America's "poodle" in Iraq we would have been a member of the "Axis of Weasels" alongside France and Germany instead. No...

The Royal Navy's new Type 45's - which include HMS Daring, HMS Dauntless, HMS Diamond and HMS Dragon - are the world's most advanced warships. These huge destroyers (the largest ever operated by the Royal Navy), the new aircraft carriers (the largest warships in Western Europe) and the new...

US actress Gwyneth Paltrow prefers British dinner talk Sat Dec 2 Gwyneth Paltrow, who is married to an Englishman (Chris Martin, singer of rock band Coldplay) and has an English daughter says she likes the British lifestyle much more than the American LISBON (AFP) -...

BRITISH AND AMERICANS GIVE MORE TO GOOD CAUSES THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY Brits gave 0.73% of the country's GDP to good causes, second only to the United States which is WAY out in front. They gave 1.67% of the US GDP to good causes. The People 3 December 2006 WE DO BRIT FOR CHARITY...

Science genius ... Stephen Hawking EXCLUSIVE Hawking invited on Big Brother By CAROLINE IGGULDEN December 02, 2006 SCIENCE genius Stephen Hawking has been invited on to the next series of Celebrity Big Brother. The wheelchair-bound professor, 64, has been offered a...

The Sunday Times December 03, 2006 Anti-enterprise Scotland go it alone? What a hoot Talk of independence is growing but until Scots abandon their love affair with state handouts it will never work, says Tim Luckhurst Anti-enterprise Scotland, with its low levels of...

Bring Me The Horizon: "It's just party music" British "metalcore" (heavy metal/death core) rockers Bring Me The Horizon, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire (a city that has also given us The Arctic Monkeys and Milburn in recent months) have released their debut album "Count Your Blessings"...

Frenchwoman Agnes Poirier says in The Guardian that even though, according to a recent survey, British teenagers are the worst behaved in the whole of the industrialised Western World, it won't be long before the French catch up. She says that, as with most things, France is at least 10 years...

Blair ... emotional EXCLUSIVE Blair 'near tears' on secret trip By JOHN SCOTT December 02, 2006 TONY Blair made a top secret visit to the SAS — on the day the body of a hero sergeant killed in Iraq was flown home. The PM was close to tears during an unscripted speech to the...

'Very ill' ... poisoned professor Scaramella Italian 'inhaled dust of death' By MIKE SULLIVAN, Crime Editor December 02, 2006 ITALIAN Mario Scaramella inhaled dust from the tiny polonium-210 grain that killed Alexander Litvinenko, police believed last night. Detectives are...

With the England and Australia cricket teams doing battle in the Ashes at the moment there is quite a rivalry between the English and the Australians. This rivalry has found its way to British expats living in Australia who now want the world "Pom" banned from advertising. They say it is as...

The Times December 01, 2006 Roman London redrawn after burial find Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent * 4th-century grave in Trafalgar Square * Bones could be link to Saint Martin The Rev Nicholas Holtam with the remains found by his church (Christopher Pledger) An enormous Roman...

Ancient carved rant unearthed By NEIL SYSON December 01, 2006 Seething ... Roman's cloak was stolen AN ancient curse placed by a seething Roman on the thief who stole his cloak has been unearthed by archaeologists. The thin lead tablet — inscribed in the second or third century...